Telesphore toppo biography of mahatma
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Indian bishop asks prime minister to stop hatred against Christians
bygd Anto Akkara, Catholic News Service
Category:News
THRISSUR, India (CNS) — The secretary-general of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi “to intervene to stop hatred” in the eastern state of Jharkhand.
Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas charged in a letter to Modi that “spiraling hatred” was being perpetuated by Raghubar Das, chief minister of Jharkhand and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, which fryst vatten known for pursuing a Hindu nationalist legislative agenda.
Released Sept. 13, the letter said if such actions were “not controlled immediately,” violence and hate would erupt.
Modi also is a member of BJP.
Bishop Mascarenhas wrote that he was prompted to act because of “a frightening, disquieting and scary photo” a Catholic ungdom sent him showing the burning of an effigy of huvudregel Telesphore Toppo, archbishop of Ranchi and the head of the Catholic Church in Jharkhand.
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«She made visible the face of Jesus»
Mother Teresa with Ivan Dias, Archbishop of Bombay
IVAN DIAS: To the Indian people it appears natural that Mother Teresa be beatified, and that one day she will also be canonized. Because what she did and testified to is a living thing, valid also today and it is understandable to all Indians, who in the absolute majority are not Christians: Hindus, Moslems, Buddhists, Sikhs… The Christians in India are 23,,, per
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Widespread Violence: the New Frontier of Peace by Telesphore Placidus Toppo
Introduction
Jesus Christ came to the world as the Prince of Peace, the very embodiment of heavenly peace. The song of the angels sung at his birth, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men!" proclaims this eternal truth. We believe in the Prince of Peace and in Him we have life in its fullness. The world lives and moves forward in this hope, the lighthouse standing erect at the shore of life. On the other hand, we cannot just be blind to the widespread violence and turn a deaf ear to the cries of the innocents. The violence of the modern day is shocking and terrifying. Agonised by this gory reality, Mr. Nelson Mandela wrote, “the twentieth century will be remembered as a century marked by violence. It burdens us with its legacy of mass destruction, of violence inflicted on a scale never seen and never possible before in human history.” Every